Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia

I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to post something on this topic. I’ve never encountered a case of hyponatremia myself, but we might have encountered this and just not known what we were dealing with. This is certainly a condition that we should be aware can occur.

From the article: “According to the authors, risk factors for the development of exercise-associated hyponatremia are low body weight, female gender, greater than 4 hours of continuous exercise, slow performance pace, inexperience with the activity, excessive water drinking, kidney dysfunction, and hot environmental conditions.”